Disclaimer:Scattergories – This is the game we got inspired from (You can read more about this game later when you have time. Its a interesting game to play with both adults and children). But as always we will have our own set of rules for “You, Me, Chennai“!

So here are the rules for the game.

You would be give a list of categories and a random alphabet against each alphabet.

For example the Category-Alphabet could be

Country – ‘I’

Vegetable – ‘C’

And you can give answers like this

India

Carrot

Now comes the catch! You need to be different from others. If others give the same answers as you like “India”, both you and others who gave the same answers would get lesser points compared someone who had given unique answers (say Iran). So, not only you should think of appropriate answers. You should also think of answers which are unique and which may not be repeated by others!

Thinktops is back with yet another unique online game “You, me, Chennai” for all Madrasis.

This game is inspired from a popular game called Scattergories. This contest is open to all kids above 10+ years old and adults. Apart from knowing how well you know about Chennai and you would get to know how different you think from other Chennaites!

Age– Anyone from Chennai (Above 12+ year olds)

Date– 17th & 24th August 2013

Venue – Online event followed by offline event. Venue for offline event will be announced later.

Registration is Free. And a team can have maximum 3 members (Get your grandpa/ma,moms,dads in your team. They are quite resourceful 🙂

So shoot us a mail to thinktopshunt@gmail.com with your team details – Team name, your names, contact number and email id.

ADYAR – “There is no religion higher than the truth” is the motto of Theosophical Society in Adyar.

KOLATHUR – anagram of HARK LOUT

Sixth Day:

Bus Route: 24C

DUNLOP – LOGO OF DUNLOP company. One of the bus stops in 24C.

AMBATTUR – This place is one of 108 Shakthi Sthals in the country. The Amman (Durga) temple here is 51st in the order and therefore this place was called “aimbaththu Oram ur’, meaning 51st place/Temple village in Tamil, which later came to be known as Ambattur.

VIVEKANANDHAR ILLAM / V.HOUSE – It is earlier known as Castle Kernan which is the anagram of EARNEST CLANK. One of the terminus for 24 C.

Grand Treasure is Gemini Flyover/Anna Flyover and the statues of a man controlling the horses to commemorate the ban on horse racing. The equestrian is said to be Vandhiyathevar.

All buses/routes from daily clues either pass under, on, above the flyover.

Built in 1973, it is one of the top-rated flyovers in the country, it is the first flyover in Chennai. The presence of the Gemini Studios, which was demolished later, resulted in the flyover coming to be known as Gemini Flyover and the area being referred to as the Gemini Circle. The year is 1974.

We would like to thank all the participants for showing so much enthusiasm in this contest!

We loved reading all your answers and that’s the reason, we took a bit of time to declare the results.

So here are the winners:

1) Doubles Bubbles (SRUTHI ABIRAM & S.M.SRINITHY) – The only team to crack each and every clue in this edition of hunt!

2) Flutterbyes (BERTILLA THEODORE & BETCY THEODORE)

3) Chennai Super Kids (R.M. HARISH & K. PRANAV)

And a special congratulation to “Abiyum Naanum” for cracking the Grand treasure first – Gemini Flyover/Anna Flyover and the statues of a man controlling the horses to commemorate the ban on horse racing!

As you are aware, this year we experimented with a new theme keeping the core online hunting format. We hope the new format was as interesting and engaging as previous themes. We truly enjoyed as always!

Hope you are busy cracking the last sets of clues. After you have cracked all six set of clues and sending us the answers, you can use online maps (Google maps, Bing maps,etc) or busroutes to find out the grand treasure.

For example, if the bus routes are 23A, 47D and the like, possible grand treasure could be in Thiruvanmiyur or adyar depot or some other locations which you might cross on the route! Instead of travelling all across chennai, you could filter it, travel only to those places and find out the answer by deductions. Please do involve your children (if you haven’t already 🙂

Oh! Before we forget, here’s your clue for the Grand treasure!

Long Long ago, something was stopped/banned and a statue was unveiled on a “Pakistani Independence Day” commemoratingthe ban. Let us know the “Grand Treasure” and the year the ban was imposed.